7 events found for 1886
Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in
Haymarket affair: In Chicago, United States, a homemade bomb is thrown at police officers trying to break up a labor ral
Workers marching for the Eight-hour day in Milwaukee, Wisconsin were shot at by Wisconsin National Guardsmen in what bec
Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine
The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal
Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces
A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia